M6RV6,

Lots of Husky experten hereabouts... .

Bob Hoff is no longer a Husky dealer, but I'd call him, and get lined up with Bob Jones for a few hours of dual instruction.

The Husky is not difficult to fly, but there are a few "ways to do things" which will make life and the learning curve a LOT easier.

I'd be happy to visit with you off line, send me a pm if interested.

MTV

I've got the SL40 between my knees and it works fine. It's really 1.5 comms in one unit because you can listen (monitor) to the stby freq with this unit without an audio panel. That would give you 2.5 comms. Why do you need a second comm panel mounted? I use an Icom nav/com handheld and Garmin 496 as a backup if the lights to out.

I guess with Husky's my primary nav is me looking out the window wandering/wondering where I am and the 496 takes the guess work out of it. As far as the failure of nav/comms go when the SL40 dies and nav dies on me I land and ask where I am. If I were in and out of some serious class B airspace a panel mounted #2 would be a good thing to have and the SL40 is the best bang for the buck. But no amount of comms will change the way you are treated at big airports. I went into Louisville, KY International SDF, hub for UPS, yesterday and it went like this. It has parallel ~10,000 ft runways

Louisville approach Husky **WY 20 north inbound SDF 3000 VFR
Approach: **WY say again type
Hotel Uniform Sierra Hotel Husky
Approach: Pause (scratching head)
Approach: Verify landing SDF
Affirmative **WY
Approach: Pause (you can't be serious)
Approach: are you mode C capable
Affirmative **WY
Approach: Pause (darn it I thought I could shoot him down, but he can squawk friend not foe)
Approach: Squawk 1234 (we are lowering shields you may enter)

Current Panel


Depending on where you operate perhaps having an extra com radio in a plane like a Husky is absurd.

I actually poo-poo the idea of the glass panel Husky, but at the same time I'm actually thinking of a second com in my plane, adding to the IFR-capable panel already installed. What a hypocrite!!! I'm glad to have an audio panel, which right now serves to isolate com and nav and marker beacon sounds as well as intercom controls. Hey, my plane came with this stuff and I like it!

While I am getting the plane dirty here and there I do fly into the busy airspaces of California's central valley, San Jose/Bay Area and L.A. basin and I do utilize flight following whenever possible (poor guys TCAS). This is where a second comm would come in useful, say for ATIS, AWOS, FBO and CTAF communications while on ATC. Since the earlier Huskys all had the avionics stack under the panel and between the legs I figured one little radio in that spot would work OK.

Thanks for your ideas, Roger.

VG's have their pros and cons on the Husky. A major negative of them is they result in poor partial power stall characteristics. Since that is how I approach and land, I won't have them on a Husky I fly.

Stay out of your own wake while slow and low to the ground.

George

Now this is a panel! You can tell your airspeed by the amount of wind hitting you in the face. It had a radio, but it was out of a NASH and would only play classical music, it had to go.

Now that IS a panel, and a damn fine one.

Gump

y4 wrote: Now this is a panel! You can tell your airspeed by the amount of wind hitting you in the face. It had a radio, but it was out of a NASH and would only play classical music, it had to go.

Ha! I see you have left the key ring on the v brace... clearly a violation of the tsa regs!.... but what does the key go to anyways?

It's the choke, of course...

MTV

Aussiedog wrote:Tried the MT on my dog. Apart from being a good speed brake on final I didn't think much of it. Put the metal prop back on.

I tend to come down final in the 90 to 100 knot range, then start slowly feeding in a slip, to be full slip thru 75 (mindful of Vturb speeds) then gently to full flap when I hit white line speed, then straightening out by 45 odd. This procedure happens fairly quickly and saves wasting time droning around a circuit.

Your results with the MT do not mirror anything I've read on the Husky list! The MT has got to be the "prop of choice" now. The 205 or 210 cm (80" or a bit more) MT prop is super effecient turning slow, between about 1900 - 2100 rpm. It's very close in performace to the 80" Hartzell, besting it slightly in cruise, and saves something like 27 lbs when compared to that prop. I haven't used the smaller standard Hartzell though I have had both the 80" Hartzell and now the MT prop on my '05 dog. Couldn't be happier with the MT.

bumper